Month: October 2023

Sine Pari— without equal.

For example, AI cannot reveal personal information about myself that I have not yet disclosed or published publicly on the Internet.

Also, rap, rap lyrics, rap poetry etc. Certainly AI can make good prose, good lyrics and good poetry, but yet… it will never be able to create rap lyrics, or undulations voice which meet the genius of humans.

Free as in freedom!

Jay Z.

First, it seems that all these German cars and foreign cars are bad. Very unreliable. The other day I saw a brand new Range Rover Land Cruiser being towed.

How and why is perhaps Lexus the best car?

For some foremost let us not forget that it is essentially Toyota. And also, the good thing with Lexus is that it is very low-key and also very very high quality. Example at fashion Island in Newport Beach, I went to the Lexus experience center, and upon sitting on all of these new Lexus cars, the interior materials and quality is at least 1 trillion times better than Tesla or any other German car.

Why German?

Why do Americans want German cars?

I have some theories.

It seems that Americans are strange; I don’t think any Americans really have American pride. The only the people from the Midwest, or maybe Texas? Besides that, nobody has American pride.

Something I have never seemed to understand is how and why cars are so expensive, and also, why people sell out so much money to buy these expensive cars.

Also a funny observation; the best way to approach things is when you are walking by the car dealership, a very insightful thing you could do is go to the used trade-in spot, and see and witness all of these cars that people trade in. Typically when you see a car that was traded in, it isn’t a good car.

The two things to avoid in life

Very very simple. First, never never never never never buy a brand new car. Second, never buy a used car from a dealership. Third, it seems not a very good idea to aspire to buy a house or property, or have a mortgage. To me having a mortgage may actually be worse than renting, because you are beheld to it. No freedom.

A simple thought about property is that maybe the best way about property is to think of it like this:

Think of the property like capital, and see how you could continue to accrue the capital on it.

What is “content marketing“?

The general idea and gist is you create “content“, which can be articles, blogs, blog posts, pages, videos, vlogs, audio, music, journals, magazines, books, digital content, etc. to market yourself.

Why?

My simple thought is that it is better and best to create information knowledge, and information products and put it out there for free, and barbell it with providing high end expensive experiences or products, instead of trying to nickel and dime everybody for every little thing.

Trust?

I think a big issue in two days world is this issue of trust. That is, how can you “trust“, information or products out there?

First, your own internal gut feeling. For example, one of my greatest annoyances is when I Google some thing to just find a simple recipe for some sort of lamb shank or instant pot recipe, I always got a trudged through all this nonsensical filler on top and have to scroll down so far in order to find what I am looking for.

What is the future of content marketing?

So this is the tricky thing; in today’s world, in which there is ChatGPT and it is so easy to generate text and information via artificial intelligence AI, what is the role of human writers, or “content creators“?

Funny enough, I trust ChatGPT more than I trust Google. Why? It seems that on the Internet, there is always some sort of hidden editorial slant, or some sort of hidden “content marketing“.

Owns Culver Studios— Michael Hackman bio.

For example, all of these small minded fool saying that eating meat is “bad for you“, or that I’m going to have a “heart attack “, it seems that they like any critical thinking.

Strong minded or weak minded?

Is it possible to walk 50 mile a day, 8 hours a day?

Always moving is best!

The best way to train your photo composition– practice and train with your kids!

Weird– it is considered immoral to be *too* into your body, but we can be ‘into’ our productivity, our ‘work’ as well as our virtues, but not our body?

For example, nobody ever dares to say that going to church mass or synogogue or praying (Islamic people) is a ‘waste of time’. But to exercise your body is seen as a waste of time?

Power, might, strength. Act of strength, act of valor.

Dominion, power.

harduz— *kort-us, *kret— strong, powerful. 

kratus— strong. Krakos— strength, power, dominion. 

*kret-

Insight, intelligence, strength.

Harduz— strong, brave, hard.

Hard — like hard, solid like a stone?

Like a diamond!

Don’t hide behind the camera like a coward! Be up and front!

Not “working out” or even “training”, but hardening?

Becoming the hardest motherfucker alive!

No no no, not your “willpower” or even your “mind”.

I am the paragon of what a stoic *should* look like:

STOICISM 101

Become invincible:

1. STOIC FLEX.
2. Becoming Spartan
3. MAKE IT ENTERTAINING FOR YOURSELF!
4. Stoic Aesthetics?
5. The Philosophy of Ugliness
6. Bad Stoicism
7. Stoicism 2.0
8. Becoming Stoic
9. LEMONADE.
10. Why Arguments and Confrontations Are Good
11. “I’m Over It”
12. How to Deal With Miserable People
13. How to Become a Stoic
14. How to Ignore
15. Pretend like you didn’t hear them
16. Bad Stoic Strategies
17. The Stoic Way of Dealing With Unpleasant or Miserable People
18. HOW TO BECOME A STOIC
19. Stoicism Stunts Our Power?
20. Stoicism is Mental Resistance Training
21. STOIC STRATEGIES.
22. How to Become Fearless
23. Extreme Stoicism
24. Ethics are Aesthetic
25. Indifference to Pain or Suffering
26. When is Stoicism Good? When is Stoicism Bad?
27. Why Others Criticize or Insult You
28. True Difficulty
29. What if Covid Never Goes Away?
30. SUPER STOIC
31. Anti-Hedonism
32. HOW TO CONQUER FEAR
33. ANTI FEAR
34. It is the Duty of the Strong to Help the Weak
35. The Goal is to Become Stronger
36. HYPER STOICISM
37. HYPER HERO
38. TRANSFORM EVERY DOWNSIDE INTO AN UPSIDE
39. STOICISM x Child’s Mind
40. The Art of Manly Virtue
41. Resistance Makes Us Stronger!
42. DON’T LIVE IN FEAR
43. Emotions are Good
44. Conquer Your Anger
45. BLACK EAGLE
46. DIFFICULTY AWAKENS YOUR INNER-GENIUS.
47. STOICISM IS ARMOR FOR THE MIND
48. The Spartan-Stoic Lifestyle
49. How I Conquered Fear
50. HOW TO CURE FEAR.
51. LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.
52. The Upside of Poverty
53. How I Became Me
54. THE WILL TO POWER, OR THE WILL TO FEAR?
55. ATTACK REALITY
56. Living *THROUGH* History
57. How to Fear Less
58. Fear is the Ultimate Contagious Disease
59. STOICISM FOR DUMMIES
60. Don’t Be Scared!
61. WHAT CAN YOU CONTROL, WHAT CAN YOU NOT CONTROL?
62. HOW YOU CAN CONQUER FEAR
63. YOU’RE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE.
64. EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
65. WHY AREN’T THINGS WORSE?
66. My Philosophy on Masculinity
67. A Riskier Life is a Better Life #philosophy #stoicism
68. How to Creatively Flourish in Life
69. Introduction to Stoicism
70. How to Become Stronger
71. How to Conquer Depression With Photography
72. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
73. How to Respect Yourself
74. How to Believe in Yourself
75. How to Steer Fear
76. How to Conquer Pessimism
77. How to Conquer Anxiety
78. How to Overcome Your Fear of People
79. How to Be Optimistic
80. Why I Don’t Take My Anger Seriously
81. HOW TO BECOME MORE POWERFUL
82. POSITIVITY.
83. HOW TO BECOME SUPERHUMAN
84. How to Give a Fuck Less
85. ALL IN.
86. Why I Cut My Dad Out of My Life.
87. Your iPhone Only Has 5% Battery Left.
88. How not to give a FUCK about your REPUTATION
89. WHAT IS A HUMAN?
90. HAPPINESS.
91. The Regret Minimization Framework in Photography and Life
92. How to Be a HERO
93. Conquer Your Fears by Making Fear Your Slave
94. Rule Circumstances; Don’t Let Your Circumstances Rule You
95. How to Love Yourself
96. How to Turn Shit into Gold
97. Your Parents Fuck You Up
98. Immortality
99. What Kills You Makes You Stronger
100. How to Be Patient
101. How to Conquer Anger
102. How to Bounce Back in Life
103. How to Overcome Resistance
104. Nothing Unlimited is Good; Nothing Good is Unlimited
105. You Have No Limits
106. Can 1’s and 0’s Hurt You?
107. The Envious Moment is Flying Now
108. Tomorrow We’ll Sail the Wide Seas Again
109. How to Forgive Others
110. Focus on Your Actions, Not the Results
111. Everything Will Be Alright
112. How to Be a Stoic Street Photographer
113. How to Be a Spartan Photographer
114. How to Overcome Your Fears in Life
115. How to Stop Worrying in Life
116. How to Use Photography as Self-Therapy
117. How to Free Your Soul From Disturbance
118. 3 Stoic Techniques that Can Help You Gain Tranquility
119. Can People Weaker than You Hurt You?
120. Does a Doctor Get Angry at a Crazy Patient?
121. Own Nothing

The Stoic Masters

Learn from the master stoics:

• Seneca
• Marcus Aurelius
• Epictetus
• Publilius Syrus
• Heraclitus

See all philosophy >

Like a Greek marble statue:

Also, LumaFusion is pretty amazing?

Like trash-producing? Not “wasteful”, but “trash-ful”?

Beyond strong:

“Y’all small minded niggas is Napoleon”. – Kanye

Strongman

Stronger is better:

Anybody on 100% carnivore beef and lamb diet, with daily weight training and physical exercise will get fit.

Nuances:

1. No sugars, fake or real.
2. No alcohol, no beer, no wine no spirits etc.
3. No weed
4. Sleep 8-12 hours a night.
5. No vegetables, fruits, starches carbs etc.
6. No sauces — eventually they all have sugar, starch, or some sort of weird sweeteners.

Simple fitness ideas

Buy a very heavy sandbag, the 400 pounder either on rogue fitness or titan.fitness

You can just fill up the sandbags at the local park, the local playground with the playground sand. Have fun picking it up, throwing it around etc.

Perhaps there is wisdom in this hardheaded, insane stubbornness!

My life is fitness! So is Seneca’s.

For example, it seems that Seneca loves going to new parks! It always awakens a new type of genius within him. Perhaps we adults should also be the same.

All athletes — steroid users?

Simple — 400 pound sandbag training, walking it out lifting it carrying and throwing it, and aiming to eat at least 5-6 pounds of beef a day!

Pod

Garage is good:

Played around with ChatGPT 4 this morning, and was very impressed. DALL-E 3 is also a great addition.
AI THOUGHTS >

Why Photographers Still Matter

I’ve observed that ChatGPT as well as DALL-E is very fascinating, and also great for creativity.

However, an interesting nuance I have discovered:

The images that they could produce however, is still limited to illustrations, vector images, drawings and paintings etc. It cannot yet make a realistic looking photograph.

I think there is something very very beautiful about the photographs, why? Capturing a moment in time I think is our great joy. Also some simple pragmatics include the ease of printing out photos, and being able to mount them on your wall or inside a frame, something that does not require batteries, charging, LCD screens etc.

The best way to think about AI is that it is essentially like Siri

All of this nonsensical talk of artificial intelligence going to take our jobs in our creativity is silly. Why? The reason people like to do art is because it is fun!

A simple thought is I don’t really think that artist should chase making money, instead, we should do it for autotelic purposes, fulfilling some sort of inner joy in ourselves!

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The best way to think about AI, open AI, ChatGPT etc. is that it is a complement to us, and an augmentation of us, rather than a replacement.

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Automate the boring stuff

This is very very popular online course by udemy titled “automate the boring stuff”. The basic idea is that perhaps the reason of technology is that it helps us eliminate tedious, time-consuming tasks in our everyday life.

Example, my insane joy with the instant pot as well as the air fryer (chefman). Why? It is like having a cooking slave; to be able to instant pot food insanely quickly and effectively is such a great joy, instead of having to tediously cook it myself and monitor it. Do you remember that old commercial, “set it and forget it?” Yeah that’s good.

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What are the tedious things we could cut out of photography?

Photography is great, but I have observed that there are certain tedious things. For example, having to trudge through all of our photographs in order to choose the best one. This is a huge issue, because let us say that you shoot 1000 photos a day. Technically photography is my profession, and even I don’t have enough time to go through and review all my photos in a single day! My simple vision for the next generation of arsbeta.com is simple:

Dragon drop, or from your iPhone or iPad, quickly dragon drop or select 1000 photos, and ARS BETA AI can help you cool down to your best photo or three photos or 10 photos etc.

Essentially there would be some sort of slider, which would actually enable this to be possible. For example, the slider filter could allow you to cull down to 100 photos, 50 photos, 25 photos etc.

If you can help me code this shoot me an email at eric@erickim.com

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Why AI?

I think by far, the most useful use case of AI would definitely be in regards to tedious driving in stop and go traffic. For example, I think the only reason to get a Tesla is in for all of that electric car stuff, but rather, the promise of a car that can use the noise of driving on the 405 or the 10 during rush-hour traffic. Or even tedious stopping go traffic when driving around Los Angeles local.

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It seems at the end of the day, irregardless of how advanced AI becomes, everyone is going to want human feedback. Why?

It seems in our human nature to desire recognition from other human beings. For example, let us consider the Academy Awards, Leonardo DiCaprio etc.; what is it that they all want? Recognition from their peers. Inter pares.

I think the best way to market ChatGPT is to brand it like it will be your centaur. That is, certain things which are interesting include:

1. ChatGPT 4 can actually write code!!!
2. ChatGPT 4 can give you feedback on your photos or your artwork

Essentially the basic idea is that ChatGPT is not going to us it, rather, augment us, make us more creative, and also, cutting out the advertisements.

I think ChatGPT should really focus on this; and also open AI: that we are sick and tired of all these annoying ads. That if you subscribe to ChatGPT premium, you can live a beautiful ad-free existence.

For example, one insanely annoying thing is that it seems that whenever I’m just trying to find a simple recipe to cook something in the instant pot etc., I have to scroll through all this annoying “content marketing“, about the history of the food blah blah blah. This is insanely annoying. I want you to just cut to the chase!

This is where CHAT GPT is great, it cuts to the chase in a nice numbered bullet form list rather than all of this unnecessary filler on top.

A very simple way we could optimize our lives is this: optimize that which is conducive to walking.

For example, your clothes. I’ve discovered that even wearing the standard shorts is not conducive to walking. Why? All the fabric gets in your way.

Reduce.

The more dense, condense, condensed, the better!

arsbeta.com — the next generation incoming!

Pretty cool.

Video

Zen Dojo. Tatami mat it up baby!

Also spacing. And white space, buffer.